Re: [Usability] changing view with key strokes.

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 00:11 +0200, Samuel Abels wrote:
> On Do, 2005-07-21 at 22:41 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Is this a usability report for Totem? I don't think I asked for one...
> 
> I do not think that my comments were out of place in this discussion,
> but I am sorry if they offended you.

Not meant that way. I just don't see why Totem (which has very
particular needs for everything that's keyboard shortcut related) is
being singled out.

> > As Alan said, we use single key shortcuts for most things as we want it
> > to be easily usable from a keyboard.
> 
> > File bugs if you think Totem uses the wrong key combos
> 
> I believe this thread was about finding a common standard rather than
> finding bugs, if the C^+/C^- keys are now set in stone I will be happy
> to open bugs for the change.

Unfortunately, the HIG mentions something which is very different from
what we need and use. There's the exact same problem for Fullscreen for
example. Supporting both is planned (there's a bug opened about
"cleaning up the keyboard bindings", don't know yet in which direction
it will go).

> I personally couldn't care less about which keys we decide to
> standardize for this, since I never use them anyway.

You might also check for the uses of the mouse wheel in some
applications. It will scroll in gthumb, skip forward in Totem, and zoom
in in eog.

> (I have opened a feature request for the "scale to screen size feature
> though:
> http://bugs.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311196
> )

Which I closed... Trust me, I wish it worked, and I tried it, it mostly
sucks...

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Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>